Steven Chu
Product Designer based in Brooklyn, NY
work@stevenchustudio.com
646-450-2809
Experience
Motif Photos
Design Lead (Brand, Web, Marketing), December 2018 - PresentBuilt design process and development infrastructure (designOps: tools, ways of working, design ethos) at Motif Photos, a mac & iOS photo bookmaking startup offered in 32 countries. Motif is the first consumer venture from the world's largest B2B printer, R.R. Donnelley- a Fortune 500 with 35K employees.
Uniqlo
Internal UX Consultant, Dec 2017 - Apr 2018Developed a coding automation tool through contextual research and service design to help the 6 person team eliminate user error when developing emails, meet production goals, and increase email personalization.
Marie Forleo
UX Consultant, September 2015 - October 2015Marie Forleo is a multimillion-dollar online education platform for entrepreneurship endorsed by Oprah & Richard Branson with students in 148 countries and 609+ job industries - I led strategy, information architecture, and wireframing to transform MarieForleo.com from a basic Wordpress blog into a fully-developed learning resource hub which has helped 55,000+ students pursue entrepreneurship. The site format quickly became a template replicated by industry competitors.
Steven Chu Studio
Web Designer, Developer, & Shopify E-commerce Consultant, Sept 2010 - Dec 2017Launched and managed Shopify stores for e-commerce brands including: Marissa Webb, former Global Creative Director of Banana Republic and J. Crew; a gold and diamonds jeweler; and consulted for Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen, MONSE, S. Rothschild, and Steven Alan.
Education
B.S. in Business Administration & Psychology
Haas School of BusinessUniversity of California, Berkeley
Skills
Tools
FigmaZeplin
Notion
Airtable
Adobe Creative Suite
HTML + CSS
Liquid
Algolia
Contentful
Github
Areas of Focus
User experience designService design
Systems thinking
Design systems
User flows
Journey mapping
Information architecture
Wireframes
Rapid prototyping
Visual design
Responsive web design
Brand strategy
Front-end development
A/B testing
basic Motion graphics
Mentorship & coaching
Studio & documentary photography